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Re: Final(?) proposal for wal_sync_method changes

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-12-07T23:52:45Z
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> I am unclear as to the reason why there is a test for
> HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH_ONLY in pg_fsync().  Perhaps that is also
> leftover from a previous vision of how this all works?  Or does an
> fsync() call actually fail on Windows?

No, fsync responds fine.  It just don't actually sync to disk.

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